Door-holder.



J. c. COSTELLO.

0005 HOLDER. APFUCATION FILED MAY 19.1917.

1,263,380. Patented Apr. 23, 1918.

51mm '14 fol JAMES C. COSTELLO, OF CORTLAND, NEW YORK.

DOOR-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 23, 1918.

Application filed May 19, 1917. Serial No. 169,743.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMns C. Cos'rELLo, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Cortland, in the county of Cortland and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in holdingdevices, and more particularly to door holders, that are adapted to besecured to the floor adjacent a swinging door, so as to securely holdthe dcoropen upon engagement with the holder. The holder includes aspring latch disposed in the path of movement of the door, andcompressed by the same upon engagement, to securely hold the bottom edgethereof, and hold the door fixed at any desired predetermined position.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterwhich is easily and simply constructed, inexpensive to manufacture, andone which will be very efficient in operation.

With these and numerous other objects in view my invention consists ofthe novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of partswhich will be herein referred to and more particularly pointed out inthe specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved door holder, and

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the body portion of the same; it beingnoted that the spring metal strip is removed.

Having more particular reference. to the drawings in connection withwhich like reference characters will designate corresponding partsthroughout the several views, I will refer in detail to the improveddoor holder which comprises a body portion .9 having one end thereofbent upwardly and back upon itself as shown at 10, the body adjacentsaid end being provided with transversely extending spaced slots 11therein. The opposite end of the body 9 is slit inwardly transverselyfrom its opposite sides, and the portions between said slits and the endof the body are bent inwardly transversely toward each other, in spacedrelation as shown at 12, said bent ends being spaced from the body toform a guide portion for a purpose to be hereinafter more fullydescribed. The guide portion and the opposite end of said body areprovided with openings therethrough designated by the numeral 13. v

The holder member employed in this form of the device comprises a springmetal strip 13 having the intermediate portions thereof bowed to providedoor engaging means, and said strip has one end 14 thereof positionedthrough the guide portion 12 in one end of the body, and having itsextremity disposed in the bent end 10 of said body. This end isadditionally held in position by a securing member 15 that is positionedthrough this end of the strip and the body and is secured in the floor.An additional securing member 16 is positioned through the guide portion12 at the opposite end of the device to securely hold the body inposition. The opposite end of the spring that is slidably mountedbetween the bent portions of the guide 12, will slide freely therein fora purpose to be hereinafter more fully described.

This type of door holder is positioned in the path of movement of theswinging door, and upon engagement of the door with the latch, saidspring will be compressed, this being permitted by the sliding movementof the free or loosely connected end of said spring in the guide portion12. The spring will. be under constant tension, and hence tends to holdthe door securely in position when in operative engagement therewith.

Immediately upon the door being removed from over the holder, saidspring will return to normal position, the extremity positioned in theguide member sliding along the same to the position shown in Fig. 1 ofthe drawing, which is normal inoperative position of the device.

These door holders form very simple and economically constructedsecuring means, that are adapted to hold a swinging door in anypredetermined position. The devices may be easily and simply applied,and owing to their extreme simplicity of construction may beeconomically manufactured. The devices are not only applicable to doors,but may be employed to hold gates or the like in different positions.

'From the foregoing description taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and of themethod of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the artto which the 1 now consider to be the best embodiment Cir thereof, Idesire to have it understood that the device shown is merelyillustrative, and that such changes may be made when desired as arewithin the scope of the claims appended hereto.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A door holder of the class described ineluding a body, a holderformed of a single strip of bowed spring metal, said body having a pairof transverse parallel slots therein through which one end of said stripis adapted to be positioned, a stop on said body for said end of thestrip, and a guide way formed on the body at its opposite end Copies ofthis patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing theCommissioner of Patents,

adapted to slidably receive the adjacent end of the strip.

2. A door holder of the class describedineluding a body formed of a flatstrip, a holder formed of a single strip of bowed spring metal, saidbody having a pair of transverse parallel slots therein through whichone endof said holder strip is adapted to be positioned, a lip on thebody against which said end of the strip is disposed, and the oppositeend of the body being slit transversely from its opposite sides with thepertions between said slits and the end being bent inwardly in parallelspaced relation with the body to form a guide passage in l which theadjacent end of the holder strip is slidably positioned.

In testimony whereof, I ai'liX my signature hereto.

JAMES C. COSTELLO.

Washington, D. C.

